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South China Karst World Heritage Site
Three areas of the southern Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan were listed as World Heritage Sites in mid-2007. The Libo, Shilin, and Wulong karst areas are considered "unrivallled for the diversity of karst features and landscapes."
From the official World Heritage site description: "The stone forests of Shilin are considered superlative natural phenomena and a world reference with a wider range of pinnacle shapes than other karst landscapes with pinnacles, and a higher diversity of shapes and changing colours. The cone and tower karsts of Libo, also considered the world reference site for these types of karst, form a distinctive and beautiful landscape. Wulong Karst has been inscribed for its giant dolines (sinkholes), natural bridges and caves."
View the full-size image by Jim Thorsell © IUCN.
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Recent News...11th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and KarstMonday, September 22, 2008
This is the 11th in this series of highly successful interdisciplinary conferences which were first organized by the Florida Sinkhole Research Institute in 1984 as a means for geologists and geographers, ... Read More 19th Symposium of Subterranean BiologySunday, September 21, 2008
The 19th International Symposium of Subterranean Biology will convene in Fremantle, Western Australia from 21-26 September 2008 under the auspices of the International Society for Subterranean Biology. These symposia are th... Read More XIIIth International Symposium on VulcanospeleologyMonday, September 1, 2008
Place: Jeju Island, Korea. Date: 2008-09-01 to 05 Field trips: 2008-09-06 to 10 Organisation: Jeju Cave Research Institute. Contact: Dr Kyung Sik Woo Email: wooks@kangwon.ac.kr Deadlines: Abstracts 2008-05-01; Pap... Read More |
Research Updates...Fossilized Human Feces Dated to 12,300 BC Discovered in Oregon's Paisley Caves (USA)Friday, April 4, 2008
The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance of the Clovis technological complex in North America ca. 11-10.8 thousand radiocarbon years before present (14C ka B.P.) remains contentious. We establish that humans were present at Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, south-central Oregon, by 12,300 14C yr. B.P., through recovery of human mtDNA from coprolites, directly dated by accelerator mass spectrometry. The mtDNA corresponds to Native American founding haplogroups A2 and B2. The dates of the coprolites are >1000 14C years earlier than currently accepted dates for the Clovis-complex.
 Photo by Daniel LeRoy Jenkins (2008)
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